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Sept. 11 Hijackers' Florida Apartment Demolished

An abandoned apartment building in Hollywood, Florida where two of the September 11 hijackers lived for several months before the attack was demolished Friday, MyFox National reported.

A crowd gathered to watch the building in Jackson Street be torn down, MyFox Phoenix reported.

Not long after hijackers flew two planes into New York City's World Trade center towers in 2001, police descended on the Florida property gathering evidence.

Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi lived there from May to June 2001 before their suicide mission, MyFox Phoenix reported.
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